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Tropiquaria Zoo is a small tropical house and zoo in West Somerset, England. It is located from Taunton and from Minehead.
It is based in a 1930s art deco BBC Radio transmitter hall, which is now a Grade II listed building.
A zoo has been run from this site since the early 1990s. There is a mainly African theme to the tropical hall and aquarium as well as the large number of outside enclosures. The zoo is a member of BIAZA, the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums, and has successfully bred a number of endangered species of mammals, reptiles, birds and fish.
Tropiquaria includes a tropical hall with a variety of snakes and lizards, caiman and small carnivores such as raccoons and skunks. Outside are macaws, helmeted curassow, cockatoos, parrots, agoutis, gibbons, serval, wildcats, wallabies, emus, rheas, tapir, cotton-top tamarins, red-handed tamarins, ring-tailed lemurs, ruffed lemurs, brown lemurs, coatis, yellow mongoose and meerkats amongst many others.
There is also the Washford Radio Museum, the Shadowstring Puppet Theatre, and a number of indoor and outdoor children's play areas.